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Subject(s)

• Human ecology—Philosophy [Browse]
• Mycelium—Philosophy [Browse]
• Fungi—Philosophy [Browse]
• Mutualism (Biology)—Philosophy [Browse]
• Fungi in art [Browse]
• Fungi—Latin America [Browse]
• Traditional ecological knowledge [Browse]
• Ecofeminism [Browse]

Illustrator

• González, Rommy [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez works as curator and researcher on art and ecology, and is based in Mexico-City. She founded and directed many international initiatives at the intersection of art and ecology, including the Green Art Lab Alliance (Asia, Latin America and Europe) and the Nature Research Department, the Van Eyck Food Lab, and the Future Materials Bank at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands).

Summary note

"There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors. Let's Become Fungal! takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency all in line with the behavior of the mycelium. Every chapter is phrased as a question. They do not lead to answers, but to twelve teachings addressing for instance collaboration, decoloniality, non-linearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death, and being non-binary. Simultaneously it ventures deeper into the world of fungi. The teachings from the fungus may inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policy-makers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, change-makers, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community-leaders, farmers, and many others, to become more fungal in their ways of working and being"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

"Inspired by conversations with: Francisca Álvarez Sánchez, Carolina Caycedo, Annalee Davis, Maya Errázuriz, Juan Ferrer, Lilian Fraiji, Giuliana Furci, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Patricia Kaishian, Mirla Klijn and Olaf Boswijk, Lola Malavasi and Daniela Morales Lisac, Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra, Camila Marambio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Claudia Martínez Garay, Lina Meija and Luciana Fleischman, Tomaz Morgado Françozo and Marília Carneiro Brandão, Marjon Neumann, Maria Alice Neves, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Raquel Rosenberg, Juli Simon, Ela Spalding, Gianine Tabja and Gabriela Flores del Pozo and Lucia Monge, Fer Walüng, Tatyana Zambrano"--Unnumbered preliminary page.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Teaching one. How to become fungal? : bodily and fungal learning
• Teaching two. How to review our collective memory? : recognizing entanglements as a practice of responsibility
• Teaching three. How to organize like a mycelium? : building relationships of solidarity and exchange across disciplines and borders
• Teaching four. How to re-think decay and decomposition? : we need to talk about death
• Teaching five. How to understand the closeness of toxicity? : resisting the demand for 'purity'
• Teaching six. How can our imagination shape new worlds? : de-zombifying and re-training our senses
• Teaching seven. How to escape categorization? : thinking and being non-binary
• Teaching eight. What are fungi teaching us about multispecies models of collaboration? : collaborating with the more-than-human
• Teaching nine. How to move through different notions of time? : on invisibility, silence, and non-linearity
• Teaching ten. How to deal with insecurity? : embracing mystery and surprise
• Teaching eleven. How can language help guide us into the fungal paradigm? : communication is constant and infinite
• Teaching twelve. How to implement these teachings into our lives? : find your fungal alter ego.

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ISBN

• 9789493246287 ((paperback))
• 9493246280

LCCN

2023428712

OCLC

1371244529

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